Comments on: Still Traveling…http://battellemedia.com/archives/2008/07/still_traveling.php
Thoughts on the intersection of search, media, technology, and more.Wed, 27 Sep 2017 02:50:11 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.2By: nmwhttp://battellemedia.com/archives/2008/07/still_traveling.php#comment-6977
Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:26:22 +0000http://battellemedia.com/archives/2008/07/still_traveling.php#comment-6977In Danny Sullivan’s podcast Danny talked about how he was disappointed with cuil — because (among other things) the search engine didn’t return the homepage when the domain name was entered into the search box.

Funny! Strange, but true (and funny too 🙂

My suggestion for Danny: Take two domain names and call me in the morning!

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Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:54:41 +0000http://battellemedia.com/archives/2008/07/still_traveling.php#comment-6973Another thing that I think is funny about the Cuil reactions in the blogosphere is that everyone seems to think that Cuil has to do everything that Google does, and more, within the first day of Cuil’s public existence.

What Cuil should have done is put the “beta” tag on the engine, and then claimed that they would forever iterate. Then maybe the blogosphere would have reacted more forgivingly. Like when Google Spreadsheets first came out. Though it couldn’t go graphing, couldn’t do even a quarter of the functions that Excel can, people were fine with that because of the “beta” label.

Cuil should have PR’ed itself similarly.

It’s not like the first day that Google came out that it was immediately an AltaVista killer. At that time, I was using SavvySearch, and SavvySearch was better than both Google and AltaVista.

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Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:14:16 +0000http://battellemedia.com/archives/2008/07/still_traveling.php#comment-6972hmm.. at least cuil makes much better use of the real estate. On my 24″ widescreen monitor, and my web browser filling the monitor, a google search result shows 5 SERPs on the left, 4 ads on the right, and 80% of the screen in the middle is filled with dead white space. Nothing going on, no results, wasted.

At least Google should take a cue from Cuil, and put the other 5 SERPs that are below the fold into that dead white space, so that I don’t have to constantly scroll to see the results of my search.